Borders and population growth : evidence from a century of border regime changes on the Austrian-Czech border

Lucie Coufalová, Fanny H. Dellinger, Peter Huber, Štěpán Mikula

We analyze the impacts of three major unexpected border regime changes that occurred during the course of 20th century on population growth along the Austrian-Czech border. Using historical municipal-level census data reaching back to 1880, we find no effects of the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (1919) but strong and oppositely signed effects of the drawing (1948) and the fall (1989) of the Iron Curtain in both countries. Our findings indicate that border regimes affect population growth via economic as well as non-economic mechanisms.

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Year of publication:	[2024]
Authors:	Coufalová, Lucie ; Dellinger, Fanny H. ; Huber, Peter ; Mikula, Stepan
Publisher:	Brno : Masaryk University
Subject:	Population growth \| border regions \| economic geography \| Grenzregion \| Border region \| Bevölkerungswachstum \| Grenze \| Political border \| Wirtschaftsgeographie \| Economic geography \| Bevölkerungsentwicklung \| Demographic development \| Regionale Bevölkerungsentwicklung \| Regional population dynamics

Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (circa 38 Seiten) Illustrationen
Series:	MUNI ECON : working paper. - [Brno] : [Masaryk University, Faculty of Economis and Administration], ISSN 2571-130X, ZDB-ID 3017804-6. - Vol. n. 2024, 03
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature ; Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	10.5817/WP_MUNI_ECON_2024-03 [DOI] hdl:10419/301661 [Handle]
Classification:	N94 - Europe: 1913- ; R12 - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity ; R23 - Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population ; J11 - Demographic Trends and Forecasts
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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